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Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sentinel-florida-desantis-welfare-9636452a8bf8eb230489513db64d86f7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p104#a250609p104

NIH scientists air deep concerns about agency policies and cuts:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/nih-scientists-air-deep-concerns-about-agency-policies-and-cuts

SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency is working on an "innovation exemption" to boost onchain product creation and support Trump's vision of a US crypto hub (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-mulls-crypto-ex…

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-budget-135m-dhs-2026-house-appropriations/

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
A House panel approved a fiscal 2026 funding bill Monday that would cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $135 million from fiscal 2025, significantly less than the Trump administration’s proposed $495 million.

The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen

Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife
Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife. The foundation is the subject of an investigation. The Orlando Sentinel received the letter on Friday from the Department of Children and Families. The letter claims the newspaper’s Tallahassee reporter intimidated foster families who had received money from the Hope Florida Foundation w…

Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?
Aadarsh Padiyath, Casey Fiesler, Mark Guzdial, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06193

Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?
Computing ethics education aims to develop students' critical reflection and agency. We need validated ways to measure whether our efforts succeed. Through two survey administrations (N=474, N=464) with computing students and professionals, we provide evidence for the validity of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index. Our psychometric analyses demonstrate distinct dimensions of ethical development and show strong reliability and construct validity. Participants who completed com…

Asante Samuel Jr. is still free, but hardly meets Cowboys' criteria https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/09/asante-samuel-jr-cowboys-free-agency/84121717007/

Social Security Chief Says Musk's DOGE Figures Heavily in Agency's Plans (Anne Tergesen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/social-security-chief-says-musks-doge-figures-heavily-in-agencys-plans-45cc0f35
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p72#a250609p72

Las Vegas Raiders Connected to Star Linebacker Who Just Hit Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/connected-to-free-agent-star-linebacker/?adt_ei=[email]

Why Chris Godwin spurned Patriots' $30 million offer, signed for less money with Buccaneers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-chr

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09030 has been replaced.
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Authoritarian Recursions: How Fiction, History, and AI Reinforce Control in Education, Warfare, and Discourse
This article develops the concept of authoritarian recursion to theorize how artificial intelligence (AI) systems consolidate institutional control across education, military operations, and digital discourse. Rather than treating these domains in isolation, it identifies a shared recursive architecture in which algorithmic systems mediate judgment, obscure accountability, and reshape the conditions of moral and epistemic agency. Grounded in critical discourse analysis and sociotechnical ethi…

Nick Chubb free agency: Houston Texans emerge as 'one to watch' for veteran RB, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nick-ch

RFK Jr.’s chronic disease agency would eliminate or reduce funding for some prevention programs | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/07/rfk-jr-administration-for-healthy-america-chronic-disease-budget-documents/?utm_campaign=rss

Cowboys RB Receives Grim Outlook https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/javonte-williams-denver-broncos-rico-dowdle/?adt_ei=[email]

Graham's Defense Gives Raiders' Defense a Chance to Shine https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/elandon-roberts-las-vegas-patrick-graham-robert-spillane

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 has been replaced.
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Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries.
They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment
have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.
https://grist.org/clima…

Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries. They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
Fangyuan Li, Yijing Li, Luke Edward Rogerson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06011

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
With rising demand for emergency services, the London Ambulance Service, LAS, and the London Fire Brigade, LFB, face growing challenges in resource coordination. This study investigates the temporal and spatial similarities in their service demands to assess potential for routine cross-agency collaboration. Time series analysis revealed aligned demand peaks in summer, on Fridays, during daytime hours, and were highly sensitive to high temperature weather conditions. Bivariate mapping and Moran …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20491 has been replaced.
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Examining Algorithmic Curation on Social Media: An Empirical Audit of Reddit's r/popular Feed
Platforms are increasingly relying on algorithms to curate the content within users' social media feeds. However, the growing prominence of proprietary, algorithmically curated feeds has concealed what factors influence the presentation of content on social media feeds and how that presentation affects user behavior. This lack of transparency can be detrimental to users, from reducing users' agency over their content consumption to the propagation of misinformation and toxic content. To uncover…

Former Bengals $20 million playoff hero predicted to bolster Raiders' defense https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/former-bengals-20-million-playoff-her…

"Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024
Brazil’s electricity mix was 88% renewable in 2024, with wind and solar supplying about 24% of total demand, according to new data from state-owned energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica (EPE).

Spain records highest May temperature on record #Spain

Spain records highest May temperature on record
Mainland Spain experienced its hottest May day ever on Friday, with the average temperature surpassing 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit), national weather agency AEMET said on Monday.

"As the West debates red lines and escalation risks, Ukraine’s spies are doing what no NATO agency dared: hunting Russian war criminals across three continents, from Moscow’s suburbs to Mali’s deserts — the very territories where Russia projected power unopposed for years.
Russia’s failed blitzkrieg birthed something far more dangerous than Ukrainian resistance — Ukrainian revenge."
CIA forged Ukraine's spy service into Mossad for Putin— now it can't make them stop
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/08/cia-forged-ukraines-broken-spy-service-into-mossad-for-putin-now-it-cant-make-them-stop/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01651 has been replaced.
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Human-AI Governance (HAIG): A Trust-Utility Approach
This paper introduces the HAIG framework for analysing trust dynamics across evolving human-AI relationships. Current categorical frameworks (e.g., "human-in-the-loop" models) inadequately capture how AI systems evolve from tools to partners, particularly as foundation models demonstrate emergent capabilities and multi-agent systems exhibit autonomous goal-setting behaviours. As systems advance, agency redistributes in complex patterns that are better represented as positions along continua rat…

FDA tells drugmakers to redo studies over data integrity issue
(*CRO misconduct issue)
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/04/04/fda-research-cro-raptim-india-data/

FDA tells drugmakers to redo studies run by a contract research firm due to data integrity issues
Citing "objectionable conditions," the agency said there were problems with the way Raptim Research tested medicines in India.

Richardson is a former Marine artillery officer... he has no prior experience in disaster response.
☑️ David Richardson: FEMA head told staff he was previously unaware US has a hurricane season | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/politics/da

FEMA head told staff he was previously unaware US has a hurricane season
Staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were caught off-guard and left bewildered when the disaster relief agency’s new acting head David Richardson told personnel that he was previously unaware that the United States has a hurricane season, which started Sunday.

A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america.h…

Nearly All Remaining Voice of America Employees Could Be Fired Under Plan
A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06418 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Open High-Resolution Satellite Imagery: The WorldStrat Dataset -- With Application to Super-Resolution
Analyzing the planet at scale with satellite imagery and machine learning is a dream that has been constantly hindered by the cost of difficult-to-access highly-representative high-resolution imagery. To remediate this, we introduce here the WorldStrat dataset. The largest and most varied such publicly available dataset, at Airbus SPOT 6/7 satellites' high resolution of up to 1.5 m/pixel, empowered by European Space Agency's Phi-Lab as part of the ESA-funded QueryPlanet project, we curate nearl…

FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/fda-launches-ai-tool

FDA launches agency-wide AI tool
FDA said it's using the technology to review clinical protocols and speed up scientific evaluations.

Electricity supply emerges as prime cyber attack target – German security agency. Decentralized renewables are not always an advantage here: "Smaller power plants like wind turbines are often less well protected against attackers than large power plants.”
https://www.

Electricity supply emerges as prime cyber attack target – German security agency

Trojan Horse Hunt in Time Series Forecasting for Space Operations
Krzysztof Kotowski, Ramez Shendy, Jakub Nalepa, Przemys{\l}aw Biecek, Piotr Wilczy\'nski, Agata Kaczmarek, Dawid P{\l}udowski, Artur Janicki, Evridiki Ntagiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01849

Trojan Horse Hunt in Time Series Forecasting for Space Operations
This competition hosted on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/trojan-horse-hunt-in-space) is the first part of a series of follow-up competitions and hackathons related to the "Assurance for Space Domain AI Applications" project funded by the European Space Agency (https://assurance-ai.space-codev.org/). The competition idea is based on one of the real-life AI security threats identified within the project -- the adversarial poisoning of continuously fine-tuned satellite telemetry fore…

Trump proposes elimination of
National Endowment for the Arts,
National Endowment for the Humanities;
Inter-American Foundation;
Institute for Museum and Library Sciences in 2026 budget. #NEH #NEA

2025 NFL free agency tracker: Ravens extend WR Rashod Bateman on three-year deal https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers -- finally: Grading the move, and whether he's actually an upgrade https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44442475/2025-nfl-free-agency-grades-quarterback-aaron-rodgers-pittsbur…

The way we talk about housing in public discourse is so broken. How does kicking unhoused people out onto the street "deal with" homelessness in any sense other than a murderous one?
"Montreal's public transit agency is lifting a temporary rule against loitering in the Metro — a controversial measure established in mid-March to help deal with rising social problems in the network, including homelessness."

A Hierarchical Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimizing Team Formation in Education
Aaron Kessler, Tim Scheiber, Heinz Schmitz, Ioanna Lykourentzou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02756

A Hierarchical Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimizing Team Formation in Education
Teamwork is integral to higher education, fostering students' interpersonal skills, improving learning outcomes, and preparing them for professional collaboration later in their careers. While team formation has traditionally been managed by humans, either instructors or students, algorithmic approaches have recently emerged to optimize this process. However, existing algorithmic team formation methods often focus on expert teams, overlook agency in choosing one's teammates, and are limited to …

Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin (Benedict Smith/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/03/trump-official-shut-russia-propaganda-unit-kremlin-ties/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p43#a250603p43

US military IT specialist arrested for allegedly trying to leak secrets to foreign government https://therecord.media/defense-intelligence-agency-it-specialist-suspected-leak-foreign-government

"FEMA had not been told and, in fact, they learned the news from those news stories. They didn't get official word from the White House about that disaster declaration for more than four days, which meant the money that was supposed to go out the door to those hard-hit communities was delayed."
'Quite a statement': CNN host stunned by Trump 'trauma' inflicted on key agency - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fema-trump-administration-concerns-mount/

The cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency has been upgraded from ‘security incident’ to a widespread attack which has led to the agency taking down it’s online services and investigating with the NCSC. Here are five reasons you should be concerned about the breach.
https://www.…

Five reasons you should be more worried than you probably are about the Legal Aid data breach
The cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency has been upgraded from ‘security incident’ to a widespread attack which has led to the agency taking down ...

Uh oh, does Kash know his agency is warning people about Trumpers?
“Parents in Marshall County, Mississippi are being warned of a satanic, neo-Nazi terrorist group that is targeting children online.”
https://www.f…

3 Arts Entertainment buys OManagement, a talent agency that specializes in working with news and journalism talent, including Steve Kornacki and Kristen Welker (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive)
The talent firm founded by CAA and NBC veteran Olivia Metzger counts Craig Melvin, Harris Faulkner, Kristen Welker and Steve Kornacki among its clients.

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Baoyang Chen, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 https://

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/brazil-set-to-blast-35-km-river-rock-formation-for-new-amazon-shipping-route/

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route
The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará state to enable boats to pass during the dry season, as part of wider efforts to build a massive waterway for commodities.

So after wrapping up the #Wiki theme for my #Markdown -based (not)CMS (https://…

Aaron Rodgers to sign with Steelers, attend minicamp next week: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6231027/2025/06/05/aaron-rodgers-steelers-nfl-free-agency/

I'm supervising a group of six 3rd year BSc students in a project inspired by the paper "Responsibility Under Uncertainty: Which Climate Decisions Matter Most?" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10666-022-09867-w
The project description is availa…

Perpetua Resources gets final federal permit for Stibnite #Gold project in Idaho | mining.com | #geology #antimony

Perpetua Resources gets final federal permit for Stibnite Gold project in Idaho 
The decision comes after eight years of rigorous inter-agency federal permitting, and was the last federal permit required to progress towards construction. 

Cowboys invested less than $4 million, but may have grabbed key contributor in free agency https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/03/cowboys-robert-jones-free-agency-value/84015385007/

A US federal judge orders the USAGM to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding of ~$12M, following a similar order last month for its April funding (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-rl-order-lamberth-court-funding-/33429…

US Court Orders Agency Overseeing RFE/RL To Pay May Funding
A US district judge on May 30 granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL)’s third request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and ordered the agency to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding.

Vikings linked to former $4.4 million Raiders starting defender in NFL free agency https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/vikings-linked-former-44-million-r…

#wordweavers 26. If you were starting an anthology of short stories, what theme would be easiest for you?
Loss.
Loss of freedom. Loss of autonomy. Loss of agency. Loss of control. Loss of self-confidence. Loss of independence. Loss of dignity.
How much can you loose without actually losing yourself?

The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap.
https://www.the…

Dissenter Update: June 2, 2025 https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-update-june-2-2025/

Cowboys named top free agency fit for former NFC East rival after OTAs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-named-top-free-agency-fit-former-nfc-east-rival-after-otas

#gsa #nyc #columbia #climate
The original Charney Report that says doubling CO2 will yield 1.5-4.5 degrees C temperature change (
#NOAA 's #GFDL and #NASA 's #GISS - incidentally, gfdl was also in the news yesterday
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-noaa-budget-cuts-climate-change-modeling-princeton-gfdl
" The gutting of NOAA was outlined earlier this month in a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget that detailed steep reductions at the Department of Commerce, which houses the science agency. ... NOAA’s overall funding would be slashed by 27%…
most significant target is the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ⎯ a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling, including the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ⎯ which would be cut by 74%. “At this funding level, OAR is eliminated as a line office,” the memo stated.”

Aaron Rodgers' Steelers deal draws 'worst-case scenario' reaction, comments from around NFL, former players

https://www.cbssports.com/n…

Cowboys named top free agency fit for former NFC East rival after OTAs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-named-top-free-agency-fit-former-nfc-east-rival-after-otas

Then X should become a public entity https://flipboard.com/@wired/elon-musk-s-twitter-q6o95242z/-/a-XwaFrjs9SDm2VZ25O9RYsg:a:3199480-/0

Russell Wilson cites 'superstar' Malik Nabers as reason behind New York Giants free agency signing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/russell

Raiders' Jakobi Meyers announces his hopes for 2026 NFL team with free agency looming https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-jakobi-meyers-anno…

Pan-tropical plant functional trait variation from space
David Schimel, Andres Baresch, Adam Chlus, Phil Townsend, Fabian Schneider, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Ben Poulter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19199

Pan-tropical plant functional trait variation from space
Plant functional trait variation in tropical forests is central to predicting ecosystem responses to change. Informaiton on traits is limited relative to the diversity of climate, landforms, disturbance regimes and species present. These traits are central to modeled predictions of ecosystem change. We used a new spaceborne imagining spectrometer from the Italian Space Agency to sample roughly 1% of the tropical moist forest biome for traits along the Leaf Economics Spectrum, as well as data to…

Just finished reading Dream State by Eric Puchner, and it kind of pissed me off. I think I can see exactly why it might be popular with a certain WASPy liberal "literati" type that probably includes a lot of influential reviewers, but to me, it's points about love & life, despite being much more complex, ring just about as hollow (and harmful) as a Disney movie.
I've got a lot of quibbles, but I think most galling to me was a throwaway line near the beginning about why platonic relationships get so much less glory in media than romantic ones, when so much of the plot proceeds to revolve around a stale agency-free romantic attraction model that's certainly more complex on its face than a Disney romance but which is ultimately just as misleading.
Go read Loveless or really any YA #OwnVoices romance (especially queer) and you'll be learning more & better lessons about the human condition.

#wordweavers 26. If you were starting an anthology of short stories, what theme would be easiest for you?
Loss.
Loss of freedom. Loss of autonomy. Loss of agency. Loss of control. Loss of self-confidence. Loss of independence. Loss of dignity.
How much can you loose without actually losing yourself?

Ukraine tallies up Russian cyberattacks on local media since start of war https://therecord.media/ukraine-media-cyberattacks-russia-ssscip-report

"The Dust Bowl led to the creation of what is now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Just as it celebrates a major milestone, the agency is dealing with job losses, massive proposed budget cuts and talk of consolidation." #NRCS (h/t Tom Gill)